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Leghorn

Leghorn \Leg"horn\ (l[e^]g"h[^o]rn), n. A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Leghorn

breed of fowl, 1869, from Leghorn, city in Italy (modern Livorno, 16c.-17c. Legorno), from Latin Liburnus, from the native people name Liburni, which is of unknown signification.

Wiktionary
leghorn

n. 1 A type of dried wheat straw, fabric made from it, or a hat made from that fabric. 2 A member of a breed of chickens.

WordNet
leghorn

n. a stiff straw hat with a flat crown [syn: boater, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat]

Wikipedia
Leghorn

Leghorn may refer to:

  • Livorno, an Italian port city, traditionally known in English as Leghorn
  • Leghorn chicken, a breed of chicken from Tuscany
  • Foghorn Leghorn, cartoon character of that breed
  • Leghorn Runt, a breed of pigeon, see Maltese (pigeon)
  • The naval Battle of Leghorn, 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War
  • Leghorn, straw plaiting from Tuscany, Italy used for bonnets and Leghorn hats that often feature a broad and soft brim

Usage examples of "leghorn".

Wyandotes, Cochins, Leghorns, and Australorps milling around over the way.

I have friends at Leghorn, and no one shall find out that we have made acquaintance.

I am convinced that the two months we passed there were the happiest which he had ever known: his health even rapidly improved, and he was never better than when I last saw him, full of spirits and joy, embark for Leghorn, that he might there welcome Leigh Hunt to Italy.

I had all kinds of masters, especially an Italian from Leghorn, who in six years taught me all that he thought proper for me to know.

On the 18th the Americans reached the river Arno east of Pisa, and the next day entered the port of Leghorn, while the Poles, who had been pressing hard along the Adriatic shore, took Ancona.

I stopped an hour at the Wells, where I made the acquaintance of the Pretender to the throne of Great Britain, and from there went on to Leghorn, where I found Count Orloff still waiting, but only because contrary winds kept him from sailing.

His birthplace was Leghorn, he had been in a Government office at Naples, and had come to Paris with M.

When I got to the best inn at Leghorn they told me that there was a theatre, and my luck made me go and see the play.

Leghorn, telling her that he was going to the Indies, and that if you had not been good enough to give him a thousand Louis he would have been a prisoner at Rome.

Unfortunately, I also wrote to the bad Genoese poet, Ascanio Pogomas, or Giaccomo Passano, whom I had met at Leghorn.

An Englishman named Acton commended me to an English banker at Leghorn, but this letter did not empower me to draw any supplies.

I told him that Count Orloff was waiting for me at Leghorn, and that I was obliged to travel day and night.

He told us that on arriving at Leghorn, and finding no Betty there, he had discovered that her trunk had been booked to Rome, and that the officer to whom it belonged had hired a horse, leaving a watch as a pledge for it.

English Minister at the Court of Turin sent me, well recommended, to Leghorn.

Arrived at Leghorn, he repaired to the house of a Jew, a dealer in precious stones, to whom he disposed of four of his smallest diamonds for five thousand francs each.